Improvement in liwe-fasteftjers



A. B. BBGWN & P. A. PEER.

Line-Fastener. No. 165,705, Patentedluly 20,1875.

INVENTORSY.

MW ATTORNEYS D st PATENT. Wren.

ALDEN B. BROWN AND PERRY A. PEER, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN;

SAID BROWN ASSIGNOR TO SAID PEER. 1

IMPROVEMENT IN LINE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165305, dated July20,1875; application filed October 17, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,-ALDEN' B. BROWN and PERRY A. PEER, of Kalamazoo, inthe county of Kalamazoo and State of Michigan,

have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Line-Fasteners; and wedo hereby declare that the following is a full. clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is. a representation of a plan view of ourline-fastener. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 areviews of supporting-hooks.

This invention has relation to means for securing clothes-lines andother ropes; and it consists in combining with an armed eccentric apivoted concave jaw, the eccentric and jaw both having grooved edges,between which the rope is tirmly clamped and held, as will behereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the foundation -plate of myimproved device, whichis perforated to receive through it the screws ornails by which it is secured to a post or other object. B designates acircular clamp, which is eecenti'ically pivoted to the plate A, andconstructed with a lever-handle, C, and also with an annular groove,0,.in its periphery. B designates a jaw, which is pivoted at a to theplate A, and constructed with. a concave and transverselygrooved gripingedge, (1, shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Wheua rope, E, is introduced between the clamp B and the jaw D, and theclamp is turned about its pivot in either direction, the jaw D will moveabout its pivot and accommodate itself to the circularity of the clamp,and the two will firmly hold the rope. Any

strain on the rope thus held will clamp it more For clothes-lines we useat suitable points support-inghooks, represented by Figs. 3 and 4. Itwill be seen from our construction that the rope is securely held in thegrooves c d, in the cam B, and jaw D, the grooves being made to conformto the curvature of the rope in cross-section, and having projectingedges to prevent the rope from slipping out of the grooves, and that theemployment of teeth on the cam and jaw, which abrade and wear the rope,causing its frequent breakage, is entirely dispensed with.

We are aware that line-holders have heretofore been employed, consistingof cams provided with teeth, between which the line is griped andsecurely held, and we therefore lay no claim to such invention.

We are aware that a clothes-line fastener has heretofore been employed,in which the line is held between an eccentric and a stationary are, asshown in the Letters Patent granted to George W. Wilbar, dated February1, 1870, and we therefore lay no claim to such invention.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure.

by Letters Patent, is-

The pivoted eccentric B, having a handle, 0, and groove 0, incombination with the automatic pivoted concave jaw D, by means of whicha long bite on the rope is obtained, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the-above, we have hereunto'suhscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses.

ALDEN B. BROWN. PERRY A. PEER.

.Witnesses JAMES W. H'oPKINs, MORRIS 001m.

